ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,149, issued on April 8.
"Displays with optical edge sensors" was invented by Christoph H. Krah (Cupertino, Calif.) and Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may have an array of light-emitting pixels that display an image in an active area of the display. These light-emitting pixels may be visible light pixels such as red, green, and blue thin-film organic light-emitting diode pixels. The display may also have a border region that runs along a peripheral edge of the active area. The border region may be free of pixels that display image light, whereas the active area may be free of light de...